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’FEET’ FETE

’FEET’ FETE

The Brooklyn Arts Council’s "Folk
Feet" program, featuring folk dancers from all over Brooklyn,
will be staged as part of the Lincoln Center Out-of-Doors festival
on Aug. 24.



The program, curated by BAC FolkArts Director Kay Turner, includes
traditional social dances by the Yemeni American Association
(pictured). Although the association doesn’t feature professional
dancers, the men of the community practice certain dance forms
as part of social life, according to Turner. These men will perform
a traditional "Sanami" dance and the "bara’a,"
which highlights the dancers’ dexterity with dagger maneuvers.
The dagger is an essential component of Yemeni men’s traditional
dress and an indicator of social prestige, according to Turner.




Also on the "Folk Feet" program are Anup Kumar Das
performing Bangladeshi dance; the all-girl drill team, The Gowanus
Wildcats; Panamanian folk traditions by El Conjunto Nuevo Milenio;
Senegalese dance by Maimouna Keita African Dance Company; and
traditional Swedish dances by the Swedish Folkdancers of New
York.



Begun in September 2003, the "Folk Feet" project, based
in the Brooklyn Arts Council’s DUMBO office, is the first-ever
effort to survey, document and present the range of community
dance traditions in Brooklyn.



This free "Folk Feet" program begins at 5:30 pm on
Lincoln Center’s plaza, located on Columbus Avenue between 62nd
and 65th streets in Manhattan. For more information, visit www.brooklynartscouncil.org
or call (718) 625-0080.